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dues (n.)
[dues 词源字典]
"fee for membership," 1660s, from plural of
due
(n.). To
pay (one's) dues
in the figurative sense is from 1943. "Giue them their due though they were diuels" [1589].
[dues etymology, dues origin, 英语词源]